Sentence examples for by an external stimulus from inspiring English sources

An attack is often triggered by an external stimulus, such as stress, hormonal changes that occur just before or during menstruation, or the ingestion of certain foods and drinks, such as alcoholic beverages.

Control over the physical properties of a hydrogel by an external stimulus is highly desirable and is therefore actively studied.

Rhythms in assimilation and conductance were not expressed in plants grown under constant light at a constant temperature, demonstrating that the rhythms did not occur spontaneously but were induced by an external stimulus.

The basic concept involves polymers that can be trapped in a thermodynamically-unfavorable shape, then triggered by an external stimulus to return to their original shape, doing useful work in the process.

In this work we design a mesoporous silica-based delivery system in which the release of the active compound is controlled by specific pore/wall interactions and can also be triggered by an external stimulus, such as the simple addition of water into the surrounding releasing medium.

This paper deals with the mathematical modeling of the mammary carcinoma immune system competition elicited by an external stimulus represented by three different protocols of the triplex vaccine [C. De Giovanni, et al., Immunoprevention of HER-2/neu transgenic mammary carcinoma through an interleukin 12-engineered allogeneic cell vaccine, Cancer Research 64 (2004) 4001 4009].

The transformation of polymer topological structures by using an external stimulus has gained increasing attention because it is a versatile method to modify the properties of polymeric materials.

Furthermore, the independent rhythms were synchronized by medium change as an external stimulus.

DCC is reliant upon a readily reversible reaction that can adjust the composition of the library by the introduction of an external stimulus.

The resulting dynamic equilibrium has then been shown to be perturbed by the addition of an external stimulus, in this case chloride.

8 Identification of appropriate ligand systems: The primary objective of this study was to demonstrate that a combinatorial library of products can first be appropriately speciated by using routine electrospray spectroscopy, and then demonstrate that the library can be perturbed by the introduction of an external stimulus.